Re: Hard Drive Question....
Quoting Anthony Landreneau (landrena@idsno.com):
> Greetings,
> I know I've seen this addressed before, but for the life of me I can't
> seems to find it, so I will ask the group. I have several machine, now
> running DOS 6.2. The system BIOS doesn't support large drives, 540MB is the
> max. I have several 630-1000MB drives and wish to use them on these
> machines then boot the machines up with LINUX.
> What do I set the BIOS to in order to correctly partition the drives with
> Linux? Thanks in advance.
My experience is: do nothing to the BIOS. Just make sure that your kernel
is within the first 540MB/1023 cylinders. This can be achieved by having
/ not too big, or a separate partition for /boot, or, if you need to leave
a small DOS partition, using loadlin from that (i.e. copying the kernel
into C: somewhere).
Cheers,
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